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I don't use ZFS, and the Oracle origins is the reason why. I'm very worried that the best filesystem available is forever stuck with a hostile license, and that

by mort96 4y ago

I don't use ZFS, and the Oracle origins is the reason why. I'm very worried that the best filesystem available is forever stuck with a hostile license, and that so many of the good filesystem engineers are contributing to Oracle's product rather than to a non-Oracle alternative. (EDIT: I know zstd is under a good license, so its situation isn't the same a ZFS's, I just commented on ZFS since you brought it up.) Anyways, I prefer to not use Facebook products.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> that so many of the good filesystem engineers are contributing to Oracle's product rather than to a non-Oracle alternative. OpenZFS isn't Oracle's product; it certainly includes a great deal of Sun/Oracle code, but Oracle themselves can't use the OpenZFS commits without honoring the CDDL license, which to my knowledge they've not done.
- mort96 4y ago
  Fair, but all the Oracle code in OpenZFS precludes OpenZFS from ever re-licensing under a less hostile license.